Corporate culture and the use of written English within British subsidiaries in The Netherlands

English for Specific Purposes

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 281-294

  Nickerson, Catherine ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Business English; Corporate culture; Needs analysis; Written communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042853330     PISSN: 08894906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0889-4906(97)00015-X     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Adler, N. (1980). Cultural synergy: the management of cross-cultural organizations. In W. Burke & L. Goodstein (Eds.), Trends and issues in OD: current theory and practice (pp. 163-184). San Diego: University Associates.
2. Barbara, L., Celani, M. A. A., Collins, H., & Scott, M. (1996). A survey of communication patterns in the Brazilian business context. English for Specific Purposes, 15, 57-71.
3. Brown, A. B. (1995). Organizational culture. London: Pitman Publishing.
4. Couture, B. (1992). Categorizing professional discourse: engineering, administrative and technical/professional writing. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 6, 5-37.
5. Devitt, A. J. (1991). Intertextuality in tax accounting: generic, referential and functional. In C. Bazerman & J. Paradis (Eds.), Textual dynamics of the professions: historical and contemporary studies of writing in professional communities (pp. 336-357). Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press.
6. Drennan, D. (1992). Transforming company culture: getting your company from where you are now to where you want to be. London: McGraw-Hill.
7. Driskill, L. (1989). Understanding the writing context in organizations. In M. Kogen (Ed.), Writing in the business professions (pp. 125-145). Illinois: National Council of Teachers of English.
8. Grin, F. (1993). European economic integration and the fate of lesser-used languages. Language Problems and Language Planning, 17, 101-116.
9. Heenan, D. A., & Perlmutter, H. V. (1979). Management in the industrial world. New York: McGraw-Hill.
10. Hemmes, E. (1994). English language competence: Whose business is it? In B. Hendriks & S. Wyler (Eds.), Language needs in business, the 18th annual symposium of the international association language and business (pp. 213-219). Nijmegen: Nijmegen University Press.
11. Jaeger, A. M. (1983). The transfer of organizational cultures overseas: an approach to control in the multinational corporation. Journal of International Business Studies, 14, 91-114.
12. Louhiala-Salminen, L. (1996). The business communication classroom vs reality: What should we teach today? English for Specific Purposes, 15, 37-51.
13. Mintzberg, H. (1979). The structuring of organizations: a synthesis of the research. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.
14. Netherlands-British Chamber of Commerce (1994). Britain in the Netherlands. The Hague: Netherlands-British Chamber of Commerce.
15. Paradis, J., Dobrin, D., & Miller, R. (1985). Writing at Exxon ITD: notes on the writing environment of an R and D organization. In L. Odell & D. Goswami (Eds.), Writing in nonacademic settings (pp. 281-307). New York: The Guildford Press.
16. Peters, T. J., & Waterman, R. H. (1982). In search of excellence: lessons from America's best-run companies. New York: Warner.
17. Rogers, P. S., & Swales, J. M. (1990). We the people? An analysis of the Dana corporation policies document. Journal of Business Communication, 27, 293-313.
18. St John, M. J. (1996). Business is booming: business English in the 1990s. English for Specific Purposes, 15, 3-18.
19. Stewart, E. C. (1985). Culture and decision-making. In W. B. Gudykunst, L. P. Stewart, & S. Ting-Toomey (Eds.), Communication, culture and organizational processes (pp. 177-211). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
20. Swales, J., & Rogers, P. S. (1995). Discourse and the projection of corporate culture: the mission statement. Discourse and Society, 6, 223-242.
21. Van Dalen, T. (1987). Behoeftenonderzoek onder de 800 grooste bedrijven in Nederland. Utrecht: Van Dalen.
22. Van Nus, M. (1996). Placing business texts within a corporate context: direct mail in the service industry. In D. Evans (Ed.), Communicative ability and cultural awareness: a key to international corporate success, Proceedings of the 8th ENCoDe conference, (pp. 162-165). Nice: EDHEC.
23. Yates, J., & Orlikowski, W. J. (1992). Genres of organizational communication: a structuration approach to studying communication and media. Academy of Management Review, 7, 299-326.
24. Yli-Jokipii, H. (1994). Requests in professional discourse. A cross-cultural study of British, American and Finnish business writing. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae Dissertationes Humanarum Litterarum, 71. Helsinki: Suomalainen tiedeakatemia.